Member of the USC WiSE community regularly make headlines for their research and achievements. Please visit the links below for recent news about the WiSE Program and WiSE-affiliated faculty, students and postdoctoral scholars.

Amy Rechenmacher, an assistant professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has won a highly competitive National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for her work in granular behavior and geotechnical engineering applications.

Two women faculty specializing in photonics and health care systems engineering will become assistant professors in the Viterbi School of Engineering in 2008: Michelle Lynn Povinelli of Stanford University and Shinyi Wu of The RAND Corp.

Mataric, professor of computer science and neuroscience, was honored “for research in robotics, service to K-12 education, and as president of the Academic Senate and senior associate dean for research (in the USC Viterbi School).”

The U.S. Office of CyberInfrastructure recently gave a 3-year grant to Ewa Deelman’s project, which, says Deelman, “automatically chains dependent tasks together, so that a single scientist can complete complex computations that once required many different people.”

Shinyi Wu, a RAND Corporation engineer who joins the Viterbi School’s Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering faculty in January, 2008, was recently honored by RAND for “outstanding contributions to furthering RAND’s mission of improving policy and decision making through research and analysis.”